Redirect Outlook items to your mobile phone

Even when you are away from your computer, you can respond to your urgent e-mail messages in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007and keep up to date with your appointments by redirecting your Outlook items to your mobile phone. You can configure your Outlook Mobile Service account to forward the e-mails and calendar alerts that you want to your mobile phone.

The redirection conditions in Outlook Mobile Service

Each redirection condition used by Outlook Mobile Service can be mapped to an equivalent redirection condition in Outlook.

Outlook Mobile Service redirection condition

Outlook redirection condition

Sent only to me

sent only to me

Where my name is in the To box

where my name is in the To box

Where my name is in the Cc box

where my name is in the Cc box

Where my name is in the To or Cc box

where my name is in the To or Cc box

From people or distribution list

from people or distribution list

With specific words in the subject

Note: You can specify multiple groups of words to look for and separate them by using double quotation marks (“), commas (,) or semicolons (;). Among the separators, double quotation marks have the highest priority.

Change incoming message redirection conditions

If you want to change incoming message redirection conditions, do the following:

On the Tools menu, click Options.

On the Preferences tab, under Mobile, click Notification.

Under Message Notification, change the conditions that you want.

Click OK.

An alternate way is to change the corresponding Outlook conditions from the Rules and Alerts dialog box.

On the Tools menu, click Rules and Alerts.

On the E-mail Rules tab, select the Redirect as Mobile Message (Auto-generated) rule.

Click Change Rule, and then click Edit Rule Settings.

Follow the instructions in the Rules Wizard, and change the conditions that you want.

Note: The changes that you make in the Outlook Mobile Notification dialog box are reflected automatically in the Redirect as Mobile Message (Auto-generated) rule. If you change the conditions by using the Rules and Alerts dialog box, the changes will be reflected automatically in the Outlook Mobile Notification dialog box.